Napoleon Bonaparte ordering the poisoning of plague-ridden French troops after the Siege of Jaffa, Egyptian Campaign, 1799. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from The Life of Napoleon a Hudibrastic Poem by Doctor Syntax, T. Tegg, London, 1815.

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